The most important thing to remember about crime in Bedlam is that the Mafia ultimately runs it all. The street gangs of Wolverton and Hardwick Park are free to shoot it out with one another, but even the Jigsaw Man answers to the Mob. Only the Country Club is beyond the Mafia’s reach.

There are two mob families in Bedlam—the Scarpias, run by the fat, obnoxious and slovenly “Dapper Donnie” Scarpia and the smaller Gorganzua family, run by mean and shriveled old Leo “Little Junior” Gorganzua (but managed day-to-day by his homicidal 400-pound niece, Tiny Tina).

Dapper Donnie spends most of his time hanging out at the same arcade where he’s hung for the past forty years, playing pinball and running his criminal empire. He’s the most powerful man in the city but the most expensive piece of clothing he owns is his battered-up old windbreaker jacket.

Little Junior lives in the ultra-secure gated community of Stone Ridge and seldom comes out of his huge and tasteless house. No one but members of the Family knows what he looks like (really old and really mean).

Even though they’re smaller than the Scarpias, the Gorganzuas have a more lucrative smuggling operation down by the airport. Dapper Donnie doesn’t like this, and even though the two families have been at peace for years, it’s only a matter of time before he takes the airport away from them. The Gorganzuas have decided not to wait and while they don’t have enough firepower as the Scarpias, they are recruiting out-of-town supervillain talent to help even the scales. It’s only a matter of time before a full-blown war erupts. Unless of course the PCs can shut it down.

While Eentsy Z may run most of the street level drug-dealers in Wolverton, the high-end rackets (sports betting, prostitution, loan-sharking, illegal nightclubs and so forth) are run my two gentlemen named Rock Johnson and Lincoln Stone. “The Rock and the Stone” as people call them, have quietly divided up Wolverton’s rackets between them for twenty years and more, with little friction. Both of them pay a substantial cut of their profits to the Scarpia family.

The Rock is a huge bald man with deeply pitted skin who dresses as flashy as possible and acts like a jovial grandfather when he isn’t having people killed. He lives over one of the illegal nightclubs he runs in a burnt-out factory on Industrial Drive. The Stone is a scowling, white-bearded patriarch who is presently serving two consecutive life sentences in state prison, and runs his whole organization from his cell. He’s as ferocious and threatening as the Rock is laid-back and cordial, but in fact they’re equally ruthless. Both the Rock and the Stone are disturbed by how much power and prestige Eentsy Z is accumulating, but they aren’t sure what to do about it.

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